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Sarah and Nancy are together in New York, along with a pink tree and some confusing Christmas lyrics. In this season of love and war, we discuss:

* Which holiday standard will make us millions?

* What is “parse and brown” and what does it have to do with Christmas?

* What was Nancy’s Not Finest Hour and does it involve yelling at protestors on the Manhattan Bridge?

* Macy’s Day Parade protesters apply Super Glue directly to their hands

* Your hosts decline to “pick a lane”

* Susan Sarandon says a dumb thing, gets the boot

* Matti Friedman educates us

* Is Nancy the last person to realize her unconventional reporting from Portland might have impacted her career?

* The steep decline of family dining and the rise of solo-everything

* The younger the woman, the more they report “disrespect from the opposite sex”

* Who’s lonelier: Boomers or Gen Z?

* Sarah mixes up Leonard Cohen and Leonard Bernstein

* Nancy mixes up the actress from The Gilded Age with the actress from Deadwood

Plus, delightful new hot boxes, and a sultry money pitch you won’t want to miss.